In the Far North, a secret river of gold containing riches beyond imagination beckons young Billy Gaynor. Billy sets out from Minnesota to San Francisco, and as he travels, gains an appreciation of his heritage from famous soldiers, adventurers, inventors, and statesmen he meets whose deeds have helped forge the nation. Billy reaches Seattle just as a ship brimming with tons of gold arrives from the Klondike, and as gold fever ignites the country, Billy is swept headlong into the Great Klondike Gold Rush. Billy fights his way across five hundred miles of treacherous mountains and raging...

During the winter of 1944, American and German armies fight a bloody battle in the Hurtgen forest on the German-Belgium border. American soldiers on night patrol detonate a landmine, paralyzing the lone survivor. A mysterious figure emerges from the darkness and drags the wounded man to a remote quarry where dead soldiers from both armies are neatly stacked. The soldier soon realizes that his rescuer, an army medic, has been severely traumatized by the carnage of war. Wracked with guilt as soldiers under his care constantly die, the medic is a broken man seeking escape through the morphine he...

Jody Solomon grows up a recluse, quietly living between two opposing worlds. In one, order reigns and all things align in their proper place. In the other, things seem jumbled, the pieces not wanting to fit where they are intended to go. And throughout his lifetime, Jody has silently endured the torment of existing in the two conflicting worlds. When Jody witnesses a horrific automobile accident on a lonely country road, he perceives the bloody event as a Divine intervention directing him toward a mission he has been chosen to undertake. Later, during a midnight visit to St. Michael's Church,...